Only a few years ago, astronomers heralded the discovery of a rocky world circling the sun 's closest space neighbor, Proxima ...

The Sun sometimes coughs up solar flares, which occur when the star ... low to be heard by humans – you know, if you ever got close enough to this fiery orb to hear them.

Scientists hope a solar flare serendipitously strikes the spacecraft during its close approach, which would give solar scientists close-up data that could help explain how sun's charged particles ...

NEW YORK -- A NASA spacecraft will make another close brush with the sun, the second of three planned encounters through the ...

These sunspots are typically the starting place for massive solar flares like this X-class, so keeping up with them can help us predict various points of solar weather. Josh Hawkins has been ...

NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory, which is constantly observing the sun's activity, captured video of the sun emitting a significant solar flare on Dec. 19, 2014. Photo: YouTube/NASA Goddard ...

Solar flares are bursts ... huge loops of roiling plasma that arch up out of the sun’s atmosphere, called the corona, seems to signal that a large flare could soon occur. This link could help ...

"It is a great stroke of luck that Aditya-L1 was able to witness such a strong flare right at the beginning of its research career." India's first sun-studying spacecraft, Aditya-L1, has captured ...

Launched in 2018 to get a close-up look at the sun, Parker has since flown straight through its crownlike outer atmosphere, or corona. Scientists hope the data from Parker will help them better ...

India's first sun-studying spacecraft, Aditya-L1, has captured one of our star's fiery outbursts in new detail. Solar flares occur in regions where the sun's magnetic fields become tangled ...